https://dramfool.com/blogs/news.atomDramfool - News2019-03-13T19:13:00+00:00Dramfoolhttps://dramfool.com/blogs/news/uisge-20192019-03-13T19:13:00+00:002019-03-13T19:14:46+00:00UISGE 2019Bruce Farquhar
Dramfool was invited to attend UISGE in Helsinki on 8th and 9th February. UISGE is the biggest whisky festival in Finland with approximately 2000 visitors over the 2 days. On the first day I hosted a tasting for 60 guests which seemed popular with them.

All the vistors were extremely knowledgeable and were very keen on Islay whiskies!

Dramfool's 17th release, Cola Ali Too, won silver in the Islay categry - a very proud moment for me!

Many thanks to Mika Jansson of UISGE for the kind invitation and hospitality, and also to Timo and Riku Koivumäki of Dram Dealers for their help and use of their stand at the festival. Timo and Riku will hopefully be importing DRamfool whisky in the future for sale to the great whisky bars and restaurants in Helsinki.

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https://dramfool.com/blogs/news/glasgows-whisky-festival-20182019-03-11T21:06:00+00:002019-03-13T18:50:05+00:00Glasgow's Whisky Festival 2018Bruce Farquhar
It was great to see so many old friends and make some new friends in Glasgow. Thanks to Julie and Mark for the invitation - this is definitely the best organised whisky festival around!

An thanks of course to Brand Ambassadors Anders Kedman and Neil Smith for their help.

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https://dramfool.com/blogs/news/dramfools-2018-tour-of-sweden2019-03-11T20:57:00+00:002019-03-13T18:51:00+00:00Dramfool's 2018 Tour of Sweden!Bruce Farquhar
Dramfool visited Sweden for 4 days in October to present three whisky tastings for his Swedish supporters.

Many thanks to Anders, Niklas and Christian for their help in organising the tastings.

Växjö - Wednesday 17th October

The first stop was Växjö to host a tasting for the Wexiö Maltwhiskysällskap. This was the biggest audience I'd presented to with 70 enthusiastic and knowledgeable whisky fans. It was a great night for me and everyone appeared to be impressed with the whiskies.

Sollentuna - Friday 19th October

Another fantastic tasting with Christian and his friends. The 2011 Octomore was the favourite dram of the night.

Oxelösund - Saturday 20th October

The final tasting of Dramfool's Swedish trip was with Anders Kedman and his friends in Oxelösund. A great night of whiskies and food - especially Mirja's green pea soup! Can't wait until my next trip to Sweden!

I had a great night hosting a Dramfool tasting for The Glasgow Whisky Club in The Iron Horse Bar in Glasgow. A very knowledgeable audience and good banter. Hope to be invited back. Many thanks to Julie for organising.

Port Charlotte 15 years old, Octomore 2011 and Bowmore 21 years old. Our friends at The Harbour Inn kindly hosted us for a tasting of Dramfool Islay whiskies along with Spirit Still's "Like A Villain". The tasting was popular with our guests and Dramfool's Octomore was voted the best dram of the line-up.

Dramfool hope to run more tastings at next year's Feis Ile. Watch this space!

Port Charlotte 15 years old Octomore 2001 Bowmore 21 years old

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https://dramfool.com/blogs/news/spirt-of-speyside2018-05-07T14:06:00+01:002018-07-27T20:51:16+01:00Spirit of Speyside 2018Bruce FarquharMore]]>
In early May Dramfool attended the Spirit of Speyside whisky festival for the second year running, this time teaming up with Spirit Still, to host whisky tastings on the Thursday and Friday evenings at The Craigellachie Hall.

The first tasting saw the launch of Dramfool's inaugural festival release, a 22 year old, ex-sherry butt, from The Speyside Distillery.

On the Saturday, Dramfool had a stand at The Dufftown Whisky Fair where drams from the festival bottling and previous Dramfool releases were available for visitors to sample. It also gave the Speyside public and festival goers the opportunity for a sneak preview of Dramfool's two Islay Whisky Festival 2018 releases and place pre-orders.

The festival weekend was a fantastic experience and the Festival Speyside and other Dramool releases sampled were well received by the guests at the tasings and fair, along with some workers from nearby Craigellachie Distillery.

Dramfool teamed up with Spirit Still to help release their inaugural bottlings.

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https://dramfool.com/blogs/news/suomen-mallas-whisky-seura-april-20182018-04-27T19:36:00+01:002018-07-27T21:00:41+01:00Suomen Mallas Whisky Seura, April 2018Bruce Farquhar
Dramfool was invited by Suomen Mallas Whisky Seura (The Malt Whisky Association in Finland) to host a tasting for their members in Helsinki.

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Dramfool was invited by Suomen Mallas Whisky Seura (The Malt Whisky Association in Finland) to host a tasting for their members in Helsinki.

It was a great trip organised by their secretary Winnie, and I also had the chance to do a bit of sightseeing in Helsinki beforehand with Winnie’s help.

40 members of the Association attended the tasting where we tasted some of Dramfool’s previous bottlings along with the debut tasting of Dramfool’s Feis Ile 2018 bottlings.

The audience were very knowledgeable about whisky and it was a lively and entertaining evening. I would like to thank Suomen Mallas Whisky Seura for their hospitality before and after the tasting, and I hope to visit again soon for another Dramfool tasting.

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https://dramfool.com/blogs/news/dramfool-s-first-european-tasting-oxelosund-december-20172017-12-15T19:42:00+00:002018-07-27T21:05:19+01:00Dramfool’s first European Tasting - Oxelosund, December 2017Bruce FarquharMore]]>
A great tasting hosted by Anders Kedman at his house in Oxelosund for members of the “Whisky Taste” Facebook group in Sweden.

We tasted 7 Dramfool whiskies and were given the chance to compare Avian Gull and Avian Gull Too side by side to see the influence an additional year of maturation in a sherry octave had on the original Avian Gull. We also tasted the yet-to-be released Cola Ali, an 8 year old Islay Single Malt matured for a further year in a first fill sherry hogshead. Half the cask was bottled, with the remaining half to bottled a year later to see what difference an additional year’s maturation makes.

The whiskies all proved very popular with the enthusiastic audience, and it was great to catch up with my Swedish friends. The hospitality extended by Anders was first class as always!